Jeremiah 41:8

Webster(i)8 But ten men were found among them that said to Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbore, and slew them not among their brethren.

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Job 2:4; Psalms 49:6-8; Proverbs 13:8; Matthew 6:25; Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36; Mark 8:37; Philippians 3:7-9 treasures.These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.